Guantanamo Bay

Michael Moore: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether (a) he and (b) his officials have received evidence of the use of dogs as part of interrogation techniques at Guantanamo Bay detention centre.

Kim Howells: Following allegations of prisoner abuse at Guantanamo Bay detention facility, including the use of dogs during interrogation sessions, Lieutenant General Randall M Schmidt conducted an investigation of the detention and interrogation operations there. His report confirmed that dogs had been used during interrogation sessions on two occasions but that the practice had since been specifically prohibited. The full report, the Army Regulation 15–6: Final Report "Investigation into FBI Allegations of Detainee Abuse at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Detention Facility", is available at: www.cfr.org/publication/9804/schmidt_report.html.

Arms Trade Treaty

Andrew George: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what steps his Department is taking to encourage (a) Governments and (b) other organisations to support the establishment of the proposed Arms Trade Treaty.

Hilary Benn: Ensuring better regulation of the arms trade is an essential pre-requisite for conflict prevention and development. As a result, DFID has worked very closely with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to promote the Government's commitment to an Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). When the first committee of the UN General Assembly meets this year, the UK will aim to secure a UN resolution which will establish a formal UN-based ATT process. Significant progress has already been made, notably the endorsement of an ATT by the EU Council and the call for negotiations on an ATT from Commonwealth Heads of Government.
	DFID has contributed to a range of FCO-led initiatives, including the May 2005 meeting of experts at Lancaster House in London. This year, DFID is developing a joint strategy with Whitehall partners on how to encourage other countries and regional bodies to actively promote the ATT. This will focus on building wider support for a first committee resolution, and will include awareness raising events and the establishment of a "friends of ATT" group of supportive Governments. In addition we will use ministerial visits and discussions with partner countries, regional and international organisations to generate support for a resolution. For example, this month we participated in a cross-Whitehall lobbying visit to China.
	In parallel, given the devastating impact of small arms and light weapons (SALW) on the developing world, DFID is working closely with the FCO and the Ministry of Defence (MOD) on strengthening language on transfer controls within the existing UN Programme of Action on SALW. When the UN Programme of Action is reviewed in July we will seek agreement to develop a set of politically binding criteria for SALW transfers. In the run up to the review conference DFID will work closely with the FCO to win support for a common text on universal principles for SALW transfers. There has been good progress in developing regional agreement on standards for small arms transfers in Central America and the Horn of Africa/Great Lakes region. Under the Global Conflict Prevention Pool, we have funded non-governmental organisations such as the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) and Saferworld, which work with African Governments and civil society to ensure that African voices are heard in discussions on transfer controls.

Efficiency Targets

Theresa Villiers: To ask the Solicitor-General what interim targets he has set for achieving (a) the agreed efficiency target for the Law Officers' Department and (b) the Civil Service work force reductions targets for (i) gross reductions in posts, (ii) net reductions in posts and (iii) relocations for the Law Officers' Departments as set out in the 2004 Spending Review; what the baseline figures are against which these interim targets are assessed; on what dates they will take effect; and by what dates these interim targets are intended to be met.

Mike O'Brien: The annual targets for the efficiency savings and the work force reductions set for the Treasury Solicitor's Department in the 2004 Spending Review are:
	
		
			  Non-cashable savings  (£ million) Cashable Savings (£ million) Headcount reduction 
		
		
			 2004–05 0.6 - 6 
			 2005–06 0.1 0.2 5 
			 2006–07 0.2 0.4 10 
			 2007–08 0.3 1.2 15 
		
	
	The CPS was set interim efficiency targets in the 2004 Spending Review as shown in the following table:
	
		Efficiency Savings Targets
		
			  Target deadline Savings (£ million) 
		
		
			 2005–06 31 March 2006 20.1 
			 2006–07 31 March 2007 26.6 
			 2007–08 31 March 2008 34.1 
		
	
	
		
			£ million 
			  2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 
		
		
			 Efficiency Savings Targets 20.1 26.6 34.1 
			 Target Deadline 31 March 2006 31 March 2007 31 March 2008 
		
	
	The baseline, against which the efficiency targets are measured, is the CPS's 2004–05 Resource Departmental Expenditure Limit of £454.8 million.
	The following table shows the target that the CPS has set to achieve its relocation programme target and the date by which this target is intended to be met.
	
		
			  Relocation schedule 
		
		
			 Relocation Target 40 
			 Target Deadline 31 March 2008 
		
	
	The baseline against which the relocation programme target is measured is the number of posts in the South East and Eastern Service Centres in 2002–03.
	The Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office (RCPO) has no target for the relocation of posts. Its cashable efficiency savings, set against 2004/financial baselines, as amended for additional work transferred to the office, are set out in the following table:
	
		
			  £ million 
		
		
			 2005–06 0.73 
			 2006–07 1.46 
			 2007–08 2.17 
		
	
	RCPO also has productive time targets measured against a baseline of 2004–05 work force statistics as follows:
	
		
			  £ million 
		
		
			 2005–06 0.16 
			 2006–07 0.32 
			 2007–08 0.50 
		
	
	The Serious Fraud Office was not set any work force reduction or relocation targets in the 2004 Spending Review; but has efficiency targets to deliver savings of:
	
		
			  £ million 
		
		
			 2005–06 1.3 
			 2006–07 2 
			 2007–08 2.815

Avian Influenza

Bill Wiggin: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what research her Department is carrying out on products which may be able to destroy the H5N1 virus.

Ben Bradshaw: The Department is not currently funding any research projects into the development of products that may be able to destroy the H5N1 (Avian Influenza) virus.
	A list of veterinary disinfectants approved for use in England is available on the Office of Public Sector Information website at:
	http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2005/20051908.htm.
	Dilutions for use against Avian Influenza (AI) are included.
	A statutory mechanism is in place which allows veterinary disinfectants to be placed on the approved list if they demonstrate efficacy in statutory laboratory testing.

Circus Animals

Mike Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what response she has made to the submission from Animal Defenders International in the consultation on the welfare of animals in travelling circuses.

Ben Bradshaw: We considered this submission carefully. On 8 March 2006, Official Report, column 60WS. I made a Parliamentary Statement concerning the use of certain non-domesticated animals in travelling circuses.

Correspondence

Michael Spicer: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs when the Minister of State will reply to the letter of 30 January 2006, from the hon. Member for West Worcestershire.

Elliot Morley: I apologise for the delay a reply will be sent shortly.

Fair Trade

David Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what activities her Department is (a) sponsoring and (b) supporting for fair trade fortnight.

Ben Bradshaw: The event has been advertised on the public sector food procurement initiative (PSFPI) website at:
	http://www.defra.gov.uk.farm/sustain/procurement/trade.htm
	as the fortnight is designed to help spread the work about fair trade and the benefits it brings to farmers and workers in developing countries. In DEFRA we have worked with our catering contractors to introduce fairly traded tea and coffee into the hospitality services they provide and are promoting fair trade products for purchase by staff. Events organised by the catering services providers will be taking place over the fortnight in support of fairly traded products, and DEFRA is supporting these events. Under the public procurement rules DEFRA and its catering services providers can and does seek to increase awareness of the range of products available from fairly traded sources, but are not permitted to promote the products of a single organisation to the exclusion of other fair trade sources.

Foot and Mouth

David Maclean: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether additional payment has been made to valuers in relation to the foot and mouth outbreak in Cumbria since 2001.

Ben Bradshaw: Disputes arose with some valuers in Cumbria over the rates paid to them, or claimed by them, for valuation work undertaken by them during the foot and mouth disease outbreak in 2001. The circumstances and facts pertaining to these disputes vary from dispute to dispute. These disputes have been settled though commercially confidential negotiated settlements, and formal debt recovery by Defra. A number of ongoing cases are the subject still of formal debt recovery by the Department.
	The right hon. Member wrote to Margaret Beckett last year on behalf of one valuer in his constituency who is concerned that other valuers in Cumbria may have been remunerated more favourably, but the Department has yet to receive the information requested from the right hon. Member, the valuer, and the valuer's solicitors necessary to support the contention of the valuer that he has been disadvantaged financially, but for which no evidence has yet been presented.

Hatching Eggs

Mark Harper: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what controls (a) she and (b) the European Union have placed on (i)the import and (ii) the export of hatching eggs.

Ben Bradshaw: EU Directive 90/539/EEC sets down rules on the import and export of hatching eggs within the European Union. The import of hatching eggs from third countries is covered by Directive 96/482/EEC.
	Rules concerning the export of hatching eggs to third countries are dictated by the country of destination.

Pesticides

Michael Meacher: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pursuant to the Answer of 14 December 2005, Official Report, column 2015W, on pesticides, what meetings with (a) pesticide companies and (b) trade associations the Government (i) has had and (ii) plans to have, since the meeting with the Crop Protection Association on 11th January 2006.

Elliot Morley: My noble Friend, the Lord Bach is the Minister with responsibility for pesticides. Lord Bach met with BASIS (Registration) Ltd on 13 February. BASIS is an independent organisation set up at the suggestion of the government to establish and assess standards in the pesticide industry relating to storage and sale. Lord Bach also addressed a conference organised by the Amenity Forum, which includes representatives from trade associations linked to the pesticides industry, on 1 March. No other meetings with pesticide companies or trade associations are planned at this time.

Sea Defences (Lincolnshire)

Mark Simmonds: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much her Department has spent on sea defences in (a) Boston and Skegness and (b) Lincolnshire in each of the last five years; and how much is proposed to be spent in each of the next three years.

Elliot Morley: Defra funds most of the Environment Agency's flood related work and grant aids individual capital improvement projects and related studies undertaken by local authorities and internal drainage boards. The Agency has spent the following sums on sea defences on the two stretches of coastline from Boston to Skegness and from Skegness to North Lincolnshire:
	
		
			   £ million 
			  Boston to Skegness Skegness to North Lincolnshire 
		
		
			 2001–02 0.8 3.5 
			 2002–03 0.8 4.4 
			 2003–04 0.7 3.3 
			 2004–05 0.8 3.3 
			 2005–06 2.7 11.0 
			 2006–07 2.0 9.7 
			 2007–08 2.2 12.5 
			 2008–09 2.3 12.8 
		
	
	In years prior to 2004–05, the investment was funded through a combination of direct grant from Defra and levies on local authorities which were in turn supported by Revenue Support Grant from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. From 2004–05 onwards, the spend figures are entirely funded through Grant in Aid from Defra. Years from 2005–06 onwards are either partly or wholly estimates of future spend.

UK Zoonoses Group

David Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 
	(1)  if she will list the members of the UK Zoonoses Group; what its terms of reference are; how many staff it employs; whether it produces an annual report to her Department; what publications it produces; for what reasons it was established; and if she will make a statement;
	(2)  if she will make a statement on the work of the UK Zoonoses Group.

Ben Bradshaw: The UK Zoonoses Group provides a forum for the discussion of animal and human health aspects of zoonoses, and met for the first time in October 2001.
	The formation of the UK Zoonoses Group is in line with the recommendation in the Phillips Report on BSE (published in October 2000) for better liaison between central government, devolved administrations, and local enforcement and health organisations on animal and human health issues that have implications for the whole of the UK.
	The Group's terms of reference are to:
	provide an overview and means of ensuring co-ordination of public health action at UK, national and local levels with regard to existing and emerging zoonotic infections and antimicrobial resistance to those infections in animals and humans
	advise the respective Secretaries of State or Ministers of Agriculture, Health and Environment in the UK on important events in the field of zoonoses, including where necessary preventative and curative action
	promote and facilitate activity leading to better understanding of zoonoses and the risks to public health
	ensure an exchange of views within and between central Government departments and agencies, devolved administrations and local Government on developments in the field of zoonoses, and to provide contact points for discussion.
	Membership comprises UK Chief Medical Officers and UK Chief Veterinary Officers plus representatives from Defra, Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (Northern Ireland), Department of Health, Food Standards Agency, Meat Hygiene Service, Welsh Assembly Government, Health Protection Agency, Scottish Agricultural College, Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Department, Veterinary Laboratories Agency, Veterinary Medicines Directorate, Environmental Agency, Health Protection Scotland (previously the Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health), Health and Safety Executive and Local Authorities Coordinating Office on Regulatory Services.
	The Group does not employ staff but has a joint secretariat comprised of members from the Department of Health and Defra. The Group does not produce an annual report. Instead the information about the Group, and access to minutes of meetings and papers,are available on the Defra website at:http://www.defra.gov.uk/animalh/diseases/zoonoses/ukzg/index.htm. The Group normally meets twice a year and since its formation in October 2001 has met nine times.
	More generally in relation to zoonoses in the UK, Ministers agreed in 1999 to the production of an annual Zoonoses Report. Annual reports on zoonoses in the UK are available for the years 1998 to 2004 on the Defra website at: http://www.defra.gov.uk/animalh/diseases/zoonoses/reports.htm. The report on zoonoses in the UK for 2005 is expected to be published in November 2006.

United Utilities Water Company

Andrew Gwynne: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the leakage rate was for the United Utilities Water Company in the latest period for which figures are available; and what change there has been in United Utilities' water leakage rate in the last five years.

Elliot Morley: The director general of water services publishes leakage figures annually in the 'Security of supply, leakage and the efficient use of water' reports. Total reported leakage at United Utilities for 2004–05 was 500 megalitres per day. This is an increase of 37megalitres per day from 2000–01.

Farnborough Air Show

Nick Harvey: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry which Ministers will be attending the Farnborough Air Show in July.

Ian Pearson: My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, plans to attend the Farnborough Air Show. Possible attendance by other DTI Ministers is under consideration. Attendance of Ministers from other Departments is a matter for those Departments.

Television Licence

Jo Swinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many (a) prosecutions and (b) convictions for television licence evasion there were in each of the last five years; and how many in each category were of women.

Hazel Blears: I have been asked to reply.
	The information from the court proceedings database held by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform is contained in the table and shows the number of people prosecuted against at magistrates courts and convicted at all courts for offences under the Wireless Telegraphy Acts 1949 to 1969 (mainly television license evasion) and the Communications Act 2003, in England and Wales, 2000–2004.
	
		Number of defendants prosecuted and convicted for offences relating to television licence evasion in England and Wales, 2000–04(1) Defendants
		
			  Prosecuted Convicted 
			  Male Female Total(2) Male Female Total(2) 
		
		
			 2000 44,057 77,067 121,137 37,314 68,400 105,726 
			 2001 34,174 62,297 96,484 28,611 55,128 83,751 
			 2002 39,421 70,739 110,170 33,465 63,124 96,596 
			 2003 35,640 58,257 93,915 29,247 50,609 79,870 
			 2004(3) 43,724 71,900 115,643 35,531 62,221 97,766 
		
	
	(1) These data are on the principal offence basis.
	(2) Total figures include other defendants such as companies.
	(3) The TV licensing provisions of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949 were replaced by new provisions in the Communications Act 2003 which came into effect 1 April 2004.
	Source:
	RDS-Office for Criminal Justice Reform

Cannabis

Nigel Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were (a) cautioned and (b) prosecuted by Lancashire police for possession of cannabis in each of the last 10 years.

Hazel Blears: The requested information is given in the table. Available data for prosecutions relates to the number of persons dealt with at court.
	
		Number of persons in Lancashire receiving police cautions and dealt with at court for cannabis possession, 1995 to 2004
		
			  Cautioned by police(4) Dealt with at court(5) 
		
		
			 1995 1,109 508 
			 1996 1,153 538 
			 1997 1575 801 
			 1998 1,904 1,110 
			 1999 1,583 965 
			 2000 1,316 903 
			 2001 1,349 885 
			 2002 1,354 1,011 
			 2003 1,638 1,046 
			 2004 370 224 
		
	
	(4) Excludes police formal warnings for cannabis possession which are not counted as police cautions.
	(5) Includes those found not guilty.
	The large falls in police cautions and numbers dealt with at court in 2004 coincide with the introduction of formal warnings for cannabis possession in January 2004.

Crime (Essex)

Bernard Jenkin: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many reported incidents of (a) gun crime and (b) violent crime there were in Essex in each of the last five years; and what percentage in each category resulted in a successful prosecution in each year.

Hazel Blears: holding answer 2 February 2006
	The available information is given in the tables. Tables 1 and 2 give the number of firearms offences (excluding air weapons) and violent crimes recorded by Essex police between 2000–01 and 2004–05.
	It is not possible to identify the number of offenders found guilty of offences involving firearms as this information is not collected centrally.
	Table 3 gives the number of defendants proceeded against and found guilty for violent offences in the Essex police force area between 2000 and 2004. Court proceedings data are published on a calendar year basis. Data for 2005 will not be available until the autumn.
	Because recorded crime deals with offences and court proceedings with defendants, the two data sets are not directly comparable.
	
		Table 1: Offences recorded by Essex police, 2000–01and 2001–02(6) Number of offences
		
			  Firearm offences(7) Violent crime(8) 
		
		
			 2000–01 77 12,232 
			 2001–02 98 13,703 
		
	
	(6) The data in this table are prior to the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard. These figures are not directly comparable with those for later years.
	(7) Excludes air weapons.
	(8) Includes violence against the person, sexual offences and robbery.
	
		Table 2: Offences recorded by Essex police, 2002–03 to 2004–05(9) Number of offences
		
			  Firearm offences(10) Violent crime(11) 
		
		
			 2002–03 148 24,583 
			 2003–04 145 28,782 
			 2004–05 193 28,135 
		
	
	(9) Data in this table take account of the introduction of the National Crime Recording Standard in April 2002. These figures are not directly comparable with those for earlier years.
	(10) Excludes air weapons.
	(11) Includes violence against the person, sexual offences and robbery.
	
		Table 3: Defendants(12) proceeded against and found guilty for violent crime offences(13), Essex, 2000 to 2004
		
			  Proceeded against Found guilty Percentage found guilty 
		
		
			 2000 1,665 728 44 
			 2001 1,940 759 39 
			 2002 1,705 792 46 
			 2003 1,828 863 47 
			 2004 2,003 1,034 52 
		
	
	(12) These data are on the principal offence basis.
	(13) Includes violence against the person, sexual offences and robbery.

Security Industry

Nadine Dorries: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what representations he has received on an extension of the deadline for employees in the security industry seeking possession of the new Security Industry Association identity card; what consideration the Government have given to this matter; and if he will make a statement.

Paul Goggins: The date of implementation of 20 March 2006 was agreed after consultation with the industry and has been publicised for the last two years. I have made clear on a number of occasions that this date will not be moved.

Average Earnings (Ribble Valley)

Nigel Evans: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the average earnings of full-time employees in Ribble Valley constituency were in April in each year since 1997.

John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician who has been asked to reply.
	Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 14 March 2006
	As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question to ask what the average earnings of full-time employees in Ribble Valley constituency were in April in each year since 1997. (58596)
	Average earnings are estimated from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), and are provided for full time employees on adult rates whose pay for the survey period was not affected by absence. This is the standard definition used for ASHE. The ASHE does not collect data on the self employed and people who do unpaid work.
	I attach tables showing Average Gross Weekly Earnings by parliamentary constituency for the years 1997 to 2005 for Full Time Employees on Adult Rates. These statistics are also available on the National Statistics website at:
	http://www.statistics.gov.uk/StatBase/Product.asp?vlnk=13101.
	The ASHE, carried out in April of each year, is the most comprehensive source of earnings information in the United Kingdom. It is a one per cent sample of all employees who are members of pay-as-you-earn (PAYE) schemes.
	
		Gross weekly pay for Full Time Employee jobs(15) by place of work £
		
			 Ribble Valley Median Mean 
		
		
			 1997 325.4 332.4 
			 1998 *317.3 337.9 
			 1999 *343.0 370.5 
			 2000 *300.1 X 
			 2001 *372.4 **469.7 
			 2002 *363.4 X 
			 2003 *390.1 X 
			 2004 *358.1 X 
			 2004(16) *363.0 X 
			 2005 *438.5 **585.3 
		
	
	(15) Employees on adult rates whose pay for the survey pay-period was not affected by absence.
	(16) Includes Supplementary survey data.
	Guide to quality:
	The Coefficient of Variation (CV) indicates the quality of a figure, the smaller the CV value the higher the quality.
	The true value is likely to lie within +/- twice the CV e.g. for an average of 200 with a CV of 5%, we would expect the population average to be within the range 180 to 220.
	Key:
	CV <= 5%
	* CV>5% and <=10%
	** CV>10% and <=20%
	The median replaces the mean as the headline statistic. The weighted mean is the sum of the weighted values divided by the sum of the weights. The median is the value below which 50 per cent. of employees fall. It is preferred over the mean for earnings data as it is influenced less by extreme values and because of the skewed distribution of earnings data.
	Source:
	Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, Office for National Statistics.
	
		Weekly pay for Full Time Employee jobs(17) by place of residence £
		
			 £ 
			 Ribble Valley Median Mean 
		
		
			 1997 n/a n/a 
			 1998 n/a n/a 
			 1999 n/a n/a 
			 2000 n/a n/a 
			 2001 n/a n/a 
			 2002 *426.7 488.3 
			 2003 *440.4 495.7 
			 2004 *463.7 *528.1 
			 2004(18) *468.2 525.2 
			 2005 *463.1 *555.6 
		
	
	n/a = Denotes data not available.
	(17) Employees on adult rates whose pay for the survey pay-period was not affected by absence.
	(18) Includes Supplementary survey data.
	Guide to quality:
	The Coefficient of Variation (CV) indicates the quality of a figure, the smaller the CV value the higher the quality.
	The true value is likely to lie within +1- twice the CV e.g. for an average of 200 with a CV of 5%, we would expect the population average to be within the range 180 to 220.
	Key:
	CV <= 5%
	* CV>5%and<=.10%
	** CV>10%and<=20%
	The median replaces the mean as the headline statistic. The weighted mean is the sum of the weighted values divided by the sum of the weights. The median is the value below which 50 per cent. of employees fall. It is preferred over the mean for earnings data as it is influenced less by extreme values and because of the skewed distribution of earnings data.
	Source:
	Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, Office for National Statistics.

Bank Accounts

Rosie Cooper: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people in West Lancashire did not have access to a bank account on (a) 31 December 2005 and (b) 31 December 1997.

Ivan Lewis: The most recent data available that allows assessment to be made of the number of households with no access to a bank account is the Family Resources Survey from 2002–03. This indicates that 8 per cent. of households in the United Kingdom had no bank account of any kind. This equated to 1.9 million households containing around 2.8 million adults. This data is broken down to Government Office regional level. This shows 9 per cent. of households in the North West and Merseyside were unbanked.
	In 1997–98, the Family Resources Survey was collected on a Great Britain basis, excluding Northern Ireland. 11 per cent. of households in the North West and Merseyside were unbanked at that time compared to 8 per cent. of households in Great Britain as a whole.
	In December 2004, the Government and the banks agreed to work together towards the goal of halving the number of adults in households with no access to a bank account of any kind and of making significant progress within two years. The Financial Inclusion Taskforce has been asked to monitor progress and will report to Government shortly.

Consultants

Jim Cousins: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much was spent by his Department and its agencies on (a) consultancy and (b) external secondments in each year since 2000–01.

John Healey: The available figures are set out in the following table.
	
		
			  £000 
			  2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 
		
		
			 (a) Consultancy(19)  
			 HM Treasury 1,667 1,160 (20)3,030 6,160 4,910 
			 Office of Government Commerce (21)— (21)— (21)— 4,218 5,712 
			 OGCbuying.solutions (22)— (22)— (22)— (22)— (22)— 
			 Debt Management Office 890 319 560 525 768 
			 HM Revenue and Customs 39,917 76,671 54,907 69,005 (23)105,490 
			 Valuation Office Agency 45 335 825 1,645 1,420 
			 National Savings and Investments 1,427 4,630 2,827 1,617 1,400 
			 Office for National Statistics 4,473 4,286 (24)6,729 11,761 27,118 
			 Government Actuary's Department 97 48 64 15 19 
			 Royal Mint 529 273 388 219 235 
			   
			 (b) External secondments(25)  
			 HM Treasury (22)— (22)— 1,038 1,658 1,110 
			 Office of Government Commerce (21)— (21)— (21)— 1,233 2,945 
			 OGCbuying.solutions (22)— (22)— (22)— (22)— (22)— 
			 Debt Management Office 308 281 206 118 12 
			 HM Revenue and Customs (22)— (22)— (22)— (22)— (22)— 
			 Valuation Office Agency (22)— (22)— (22)— 176 128 
			 National Savings and Investments 19 125 111 nil 34 
			 Office for National Statistics (22)— (22)— (22)— (22)— 896 
			 Government Actuary's Department nil nil nil nil nil 
			 Royal Mint nil nil 52 78 32 
		
	
	(19) Consultancy costs in the table do not include capital spending.
	(20) Treasury's spending on consultants includes, since 2002–03, fees to Partnerships UK for their work providing project and policy support to the Treasury and other public bodies on the development, procurement and implementation of public private partnerships.
	(21) Information on OGC's own consultancy and secondment spending for years prior to 2003–04 could be disaggregated from costs of services engaged on behalf of other bodies only at disproportionate cost.
	(22) Information could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
	(23) Figures are the aggregate of the former Inland Revenue and HM Customs and Excise. The increase in costs in 2004–05 is largely related to expenditure on the Lorry Road User Charge programme.
	(24) The increase in ONS's consultancy expenditure from 2002–03 is in respect of the major development programmes of work by the department, e.g. Neighbourhood Statistics, Statistical and Technology Modernisation. Most of this expenditure relates to IT systems expertise. Nearly £3 million of the 2004–05 expenditure related to Value Added Tax, which the Department ceased to be able to recover on these services in that year.
	(25) Secondments or loans from other Government Departments are excluded.

Departmental Staff

Elfyn Llwyd: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many jobs in his Department have been relocated to Wales since 2001.

John Healey: Since 1 April 2004, HM Revenue and Customs have relocated 111 full-time equivalent posts to Wales. Details for the years prior to April 2004 are not available.
	The Office for National Statistics has relocated 193 full-time equivalent posts to Wales since 2001.
	The Royal Mint relocated 12 full-time equivalent posts to Wales in 2002.
	None of the posts relocated by the Treasury group or other Chancellor's Departments since 2001 have been to Wales.

Tax Credits

Mark Hoban: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what data is transferred between the tax credits systems and the PAYE system; and what controls there are over the transfer of data between systems to ensure that the accuracy of data held on both systems is maintained.

Dawn Primarolo: Data is not directly transferred between the tax credits system and the PAYE system. Claimant designatory information such as name and address and information about employments is stored on discrete databases which those systems can access and update in accordance with specific sets of rules.

Departmental Assets

Eric Pickles: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister pursuant to the answer of 13 February 2006 to the hon. Member for Monmouth, Official Report, column 1616W, on departmental assets, to which sections within his Department each of the five stolen official laptops belonged; whether each was stolen on departmental premises; and whether official data on each of the laptops was encrypted.

Jim Fitzpatrick: The sections within the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister from whom each of the five laptops were stolen are as follows:
	Local Government Finance—two laptops (April 2005)
	Internal Audit Service—two Laptops (January 2005)
	Housing Directorate—one laptop (August 2005)
	The two laptops stolen from Local Government Finance were stolen from departmental premises. The other three were stolen from officials' homes.
	The official data on each of the laptops was not encrypted, because none of the information was classified. However, each laptop was password protected.

Departmental Staff

Michael Penning: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister whether any (a) employee of his Department, (b) person engaged by his Department as a consultant and (c) paid adviser to his Department is a member of the House of Lords; and if he will make a statement.

Jim Fitzpatrick: The information requested is not held centrally, and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

Regeneration

Lady Hermon: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much has been allocated through the Local Community Fund to encourage regeneration in pockets of deprivation in Northern Ireland for 2006–07, broken down by area.

David Hanson: The Local Community Fund Programme started in 2003 and is due to end on 31 March 2006. The Department for Social Development is currently considering options on the future delivery of the fund; therefore no funding allocations have been made for 2006–07.
	The following tables set out the allocation to the relevant targeted areas for 2005–06.
	
		LCF Allocations 2005–06— by District Council Area Ards
		
			 Area Allocation (£) 
		
		
			 Bowtown Estate 52,340 
			 Total 52,340 
		
	
	
		Belfast
		
			 Area Allocation (£) 
		
		
			 Lower Shankill 61,920 
			 Brown Square 6,990 
			 Pottinger (Inner East) including Avoniel, The Mount, Willowfield and Ravenhill 456,240 
			 Clonard 89,810 
			 Beechmount/Cavendish 89,000 
			 Village 152,310 
			 Glencairn 93,210 
			 Highfield 55,780 
			 Finaghy 71,115 
			 Total 1,076,375 
		
	
	
		Carrickfergus
		
			 Area Allocation (£) 
		
		
			 Sunny lands 79,495 
			 Greenisland/Gortalee 92,555 
			 Total 172,050 
		
	
	
		Castlereagh
		
			 Area Allocation (£) 
		
		
			 Tullycarnet 69,260 
			 Total 69,260 
		
	
	
		Coleraine
		
			 Area Allocation (£) 
		
		
			 Ballysally 73,935 
			 The Heights 50,640 
			 Total 124,575 
		
	
	
		Cookstown
		
			 Area Allocation (£) 
		
		
			 Stewartstown 42,530 
			 Total 42,530 
		
	
	
		Craigavon
		
			 Area Allocation (£) 
		
		
			 Parkmore 19,315 
			 Total 19,315 
		
	
	
		Derry
		
			 Area Allocation (£) 
		
		
			 Foylehill/Creggan 39,250 
			 Top of Hill /Gobnascale 47,900 
			 Shantallow 108,430 
			 Glen Estate 38,360 
			 Curryneirin and Tullally 60,380 
			 Clooney 43,420 
			 Irish Street 27,620 
			 Lettershandoney 21,900 
			 Ballymagroaty/Hazel bank 131,145 
			 Total 518,405 
		
	
	
		Down
		
			 Area Allocation (£) 
		
		
			 Model Farm Estate 25,960 
			 Flying Horse Estate 28,200 
			 Newcastle 64,430 
			 Total 118,590 
		
	
	
		Dungannon
		
			 Area Allocation (£) 
		
		
			 Ballysaggart 106,110 
			 Total 106,110 
		
	
	
		Larne
		
			 Area Allocation (£) 
		
		
			 Riverdale 22,370 
			 Total 22,370 
		
	
	
		Limavady
		
			 Area Allocation (£) 
		
		
			 Glen Estate & Hospital Lane 63,120 
			 Total 63,120 
		
	
	
		Moyle
		
			 Area Allocation (£) 
		
		
			 Ballycastle Town 39,090 
			 Total 39,090 
		
	
	
		Newry and Mourne
		
			 Area Allocation (£) 
		
		
			 Carnagat 5,950 
			 Newtownhamilton Village 15,450 
			 Derrybeg 27,080 
			 Total 48,480 
		
	
	
		Newtownabbey
		
			 Area Allocation (£) 
		
		
			 Glengormley-Queen's Park/Glenvarna 60,915 
			 Total 60,915 
		
	
	
		North Down
		
			 Area Allocation (£) 
		
		
			 Rathgill 36,620 
			 Harbour Ward 92,555 
			 Total 129,175 
		
	
	
		Omagh
		
			 Area Allocation (£) 
		
		
			 Carrickmore 29,860 
			 Fintona 37,700 
			 Total 67,560 
		
	
	
		Strabane
		
			 Area Allocation (£) 
		
		
			 Glenderg Ward 95,530 
			 Lisnafin 59,370 
			 Ballycolman 114,840 
			 Total 269,740

Temozolomide

Lady Hermon: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many patients in each health board area in Northern Ireland are receiving the drug temozolomide via (a) the NHS and (b) private treatment.

Shaun Woodward: The information is as follows:
	(a) During the period April 2005 to February 2006 the drug Temozolomide was dispensed for a total of 28patients in Northern Ireland.
	
		
			 Health Board of Residence Number who received Temozolomide 
		
		
			 Eastern Health and Social Services Board 14 
			 Northern Health and Social Services Board 1 
			 Southern Health and Social Services Board 5 
			 Western Health and Social Services Board 8 
		
	
	(b) Information on the number of patients who received temozolomide via private treatment is not available.

Departmental Correspondence

David Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many letters were received by (a) his Department and (b) each of its agencies in (a) 2003–04, (b) 2004–05 and (c) 2005–06 to date; and how many and what proportion of these letters were (i) answered within (A) 10, (B) 20, (C) 30 and (D) 40 working days, (ii) answered after 40 working days and (iii) not answered.

James Plaskitt: The Department's correspondence targets are:
	To respond to letters from MPs/peers to Ministers within 20 working days.
	To respond to letters from members of the public to Ministers within 20 working days
	To respond to letters from MPs/peers sent directly to agency chief executives on operational issues within 15 working days.
	The information that is available on letters received and replied to is shown in the following tables.
	
		Table 1: Receipt and response times of MPs letters to Ministers in calendar years
		
			   Number of letters replied to during the year 
			  Received during the year Replies Within 20 days Percentage within 20 days 21 to 40 days Percentage within 21 to 40 days Over 40 days Percentage over 40 days 
		
		
			 2003 
			 DWP 12,157 12,031 8,931 74 2,696 22 404 3 
			 Child Support Agency 240 227 199 88 27 12 1 0 
			 Jobcentre Plus 977 866 736 85 116 13 14 2 
			 The Appeals Service 13 13 13 100 0 0 0 0 
			 The Pension Service 777 754 400 53 305 40 49 6 
			  
			 2004 
			 DWP 13,320 13,463 11,536 86 1,497 11 430 3 
			 Child Support Agency 491 482 445 92 30 6 7 1 
			 Jobcentre Plus 879 943 880 93 58 6 5 1 
			 The Appeals Service 37 36 32 89 2 6 2 6 
			 The Pension Service 958 970 914 94 53 5 3 0 
			 Disability and Carers Service 78 60 60 100 0 0 0 0 
			 The Rent Service 6 6 2 33 4 67 0 0 
			 2005 
			 DWP 10,596 10,639 9,623 90 785 7 231 2 
			 Child Support Agency 572 560 556 99 4 1 0 0 
			 Jobcentre Plus 1,137 1,224 1,127 92 95 8 2 0 
			 The Appeals Service 32 30 30 100 0 0 0 0 
			 The Pension Service 701 683 669 98 13 2 1 0 
			 Disability and Carers Service 454 445 445 100 0 0 0 0 
			 The Rent Service 5 5 5 100 0 0 0 0 
		
	
	
		Table 2: Receipt and response times of members of the public's letters to Ministers in calendar years
		
			   Number of letters replied to during the year 
			  Received during the year Replies Within 20 days Percentage within 20 days 21 to 40 days Percentage within 21 to 40 days Over 40 days Percentage over 40 days 
		
		
			 2003 
			 DWP 17,289 16,479 13,583 82 1,487 9 1,409 9 
			 Child Support Agency 1,126 981 840 86 93 9 48 5 
			 Jobcentre Plus 3,447 2,413 395 16 475 20 1,543 64 
			 The Appeals Service 20 19 17 89 1 5 1 5 
			 The Pension Service 71 69 55 80 4 6 10 14 
			 Disability and Carers Service 671 682 634 93 33 5 15 2 
			  
			 2004 
			 DWP 19,371 18,671 16,904 90 233 1 1,534 8 
			 Child Support Agency 1,183 972 743 76 157 16 72 7 
			 Jobcentre Plus 5,176 4,873 4,830 99 43 1 0 0 
			 The Appeals Service 34 37 33 89 4 11 0 0 
			 The Pension Service 153 145 120 83 0 0 25 17 
			 Disability and Carers Service 688 669 647 97 15 2 7 1 
			 The Rent Service 4 4 4 100 0 0 0 0 
			  
			 2005 
			 DWP 19,724 19,530 19,027 97 410 2 94 0 
			 Child Support Agency 1,320 1,257 1,098 87 107 9 52 4 
			 Jobcentre Plus 2,319 1,793 1,688 94 93 5 12 1 
			 The Appeals Service 32 30 28 93 2 7 0 0 
			 The Pension Service 750 731 665 91 62 8 4 1 
			 Disability and Carers Service 684 707 703 99 3 0 1 0 
			 The Rent Service 4 4 4 100 0 0 0 0 
		
	
	
		Table 3: Receipt and response times of MPs letters to chief executives in calendar years
		
			  Number of letters replied to during the year 
			  Received Replies Within 15 days Percentage within 15 days 
		
		
			 2003 
			 DWP 6,324 6,357 5,044 79 
			 Child Support Agency 3,251 3,488 3,040 87 
			 Jobcentre Plus 1,052 891 614 69 
			 The Appeals Service 84 81 71 88 
			 The Pension Service 1,157 1,102 549 50 
			 Disability and Carers Service 554 567 564 99 
			  
			 2004 
			 DWP 8,519 8,556 7,618 89 
			 Child Support Agency 5,390 5,323 4,693 88 
			 Jobcentre Plus 1,136 1,216 1,097 90 
			 The Appeals Service 50 46 45 98 
			 The Pension Service 1,340 1,366 1,217 89 
			 Disability and Carers Service 451 454 453 100 
			 The Rent Service 0 0 — — 
			  
			 2005 
			 DWP 8,068 8,047 7,843 97 
			 Child Support Agency 5,367 5,332 5,275 99 
			 Jobcentre Plus 1,062 1,136 1,024 90 
			 The Appeals Service 60 64 61 95 
			 The Pension Service 1,042 976 961 98 
			 Disability and Carers Service 425 431 431 100 
			 The Rent Service 0 0 — — 
		
	
	Note:
	Data for letters answered beyond the 15 the target is not available as most letters are answered within the target.

Employment (Over 50s)

Andrew Gwynne: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many unemployed people aged over 50 years have been assisted back to work in (a) Denton and Reddish constituency, (b) Stockport Metropolitan Borough and (c) Tameside Metropolitan Borough since 1997.

Margaret Hodge: Information on the number of people aged 50 and over in the specified areas who have been helped into work through all the programmes which are available to them is not available. Information on the number of people aged 50 and over who have been helped into work through the New Deal 50 plus programme is in the table.
	
		New Deal Plus
		
			 Location People into jobs 
		
		
			 Denton and Reddish Constituency 240 
			 Stockport Metropolitan Borough 510 
			 Tameside Metropolitan Borough 500 
		
	
	Notes:
	1. New Deal 50 plus was introduced in April 2000.
	2. Latest data is to November 2005.
	Source:
	DWP Information Directorate

Fraud

David Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what is the estimated cost of employing customer compliance officers in each of the next three years.

James Plaskitt: The information is in the following table.
	
		Estimated cost of customer compliance resource £ million
		
			  Estimated cost 
		
		
			 2006–07 26.6 
			 2007–08 27.6 
			 2008–09 28.7 
		
	
	Notes:
	1. These figures are based on staff numbers (including management, support staff and those directly involved in customer compliance interviewing) of around 1,000 and average salaries.
	2. Increases in years 2007–08 and 2008–09 are based on an assumed rise in staff costs of 4 per cent. each year.

Housing Benefits

Danny Alexander: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many housing benefit claimants there were in (a) England, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland in the latest period for which figures are available; and how many claimants in each country had private tenancies.

James Plaskitt: Information regarding Northern Ireland is a matter for the Northern Ireland Office. The available information for Great Britain is in the table.
	
		Housing benefit (HB) recipients in Great Britain by country: August 2005
		
			  All HB recipients Private tenancies 
		
		
			 Great Britain 3,981,000 805,500 
			 England 3,340,300 707,000 
			 Wales 200,200 45,800 
			 Scotland 440,500 52,800 
		
	
	Notes:
	1. The data refers to benefit units, which may be a single person or a couple.
	2. Figures have been rounded to the nearest hundred.
	3. Housing benefit figures exclude any extended payment cases.
	4. Figures for any non-responding local authorities have been estimated.
	5. Private" tenancies exclude Registered Social Landlords (RSL) tenancies.
	Source:
	Housing benefit and council tax benefit management information system quarterly 100 percent. caseload stock-count taken in August 2005.

New Deal

Nick Hurd: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what proportion of 18 to 24-year-old new deal leavers have been back on jobseeker's allowance within six months.

Margaret Hodge: Up to the end of May 2005, 35 per cent. of those who had left new deal for young people claimed jobseeker's allowance (JSA) within six months of leaving the programme. This is inevitable in a dynamic labour market, but those young people who do return to JSA after finding a job through new deal will have added to their skills and experience, making it easier for them to find a job in the future.
	Note
	Latest jobseeker's allowance data is to November 2005, hence only those who had left new deal for young people by the end of May 2005 are included.

New Deal

Nick Hurd: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what proportion of new deal subsidised employees as at 1 April 2005 were still employed at the end of December 2005.

Margaret Hodge: The subsidised employment option is available through both new deal for young people and new deal 25 plus. New deal data is calculated to the end rather than the beginning of a calendar month and 86 per cent. of those participating on the new deal subsidised employment option on 31 March 2005 were still in employment at the end of August 2005, which is the latest date for which information is available. This percentage includes some people who were still on the subsidised employment option and others who were no longer on the option, but were recorded as being in employment.1
	1 Data available through the Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study.

New Deal

Nick Hurd: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what proportion of those on the new deal in 2005 chose the option of full-time education and training.

Margaret Hodge: The new deal full-time education and training option is only available to those participating on the new deal for young people (NDYP). Between January and November 1 2005, 14 percent. of those on NDYP had participated on the full-time education and training option.
	1 Latest data available is to November 2005.

New Deal

Philip Hammond: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the average age of new deal for young people leavers who left the programme to commence (a) employment, (b) a combination of employment and claiming benefits and (c) claiming benefits only has been in each year since the scheme began.

Margaret Hodge: The information is in the table.
	
		Average age of new deal for young people leavers by destination (years)
		
			  Employment Employment/Benefits Benefits only 
		
		
			 1998 21 21 21 
			 1999 21 22 22 
			 2000 21 22 22 
			 2001 21 22 21 
			 2002 21 22 21 
			 2003 21 22 21 
			 2004 21 22 21 
			 2005 21 22 21 
		
	
	Notes:
	1. The 'Benefits Only' destination includes those leaving to jobseeker's allowance, income support, incapacity benefit, incapacity benefit with income support, and other/unknown benefits.
	2. Age is calculated at the point of leaving the programme.
	3. Data for 2005 is from January to August.
	Source:
	Information Directorate, DWP

Personal Capability Assessments

Philip Hammond: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will list the centres at which Personal Capability Assessments were conducted; and how many such assessments were carried out in each of the last six years.

Margaret Hodge: The Personal Capability Assessment was introduced in April 2000 to replace the All Work Test for Incapacity Benefit. Details of the number of incapacity benefit medical examinations and Personal Capability Assessments completed at each examination centre, including casual hire premises used on an ad hoc basis, from 1999 to 2005 have been placed in the Library.

Post Office Card Account

Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in each London borough collected their (a) pensions and (b) benefit payments through the use of a Post Office Card Account in the latest period for which figures are available.

John Hemming: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in Birmingham collect their (a) pensions and (b) benefit payments through the Post Office card account.

Philip Hollobone: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in Kettering constituency have a Post Office Card Account; and how many are registered at each Post Office in Kettering constituency.

James Plaskitt: holding answer UIN 53834 27 February 2006
	The information is not available in the format requested.
	Information showing the number of DWP benefit and pension payment accounts paid by direct payment into a Post Office card account for each parliamentary constituency has been placed in the Library.

Biobank Project

Ian Austin: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what Government support have been committed to the Biobank project; what progress has been made with the project; and if she will make a statement.

Jane Kennedy: The Government are contributing £33.5 million toward the cost of UK Biobank.
	The project is on course to begin participant recruitment for its main study in the autumn of this year. The first phase of pilot studies to test the feasibility and acceptability of the questionnaires and assessment centre visits has been successfully completed. The second phase, which will test the full integrated process from participant identification, consent procedures and assessment centre measures to the storage of data and samples, is due to begin this month.

E.coli 0157

John McDonnell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many outbreaks of E.coli 0157 occurred in (a) 2003, (b) 2004 and (c) 2005.

Caroline Flint: The information requested is shown in the table.
	
		General outbreaks of Vero cytotoxin-producing E. coli 0157 infection in England and Wales 2003–05
		
			   All outbreaks Foodborne outbreaks 
		
		
			 2003 5 1 
			 2004 11 1 
			 2005(42) 7 2 
		
	
	(42) 2005 data is provisional.
	Source:
	Health Protection Agency

General Practitioners' Premises

Frank Dobson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of general practitioners' premises in each primary care trust area in London were above minimum standards on the last date for which figures are available.

Jane Kennedy: holding answer 27 February 2006
	Primary care trusts (PCTs) and predecessor organisations, have responsibility for managing delivery of services provided by general practitioners (GPs); including the adequacy of their practice premises from which to provide.
	Data is not collected in the format requested. The data shown in the table are of PCT assessments of GP premises below minimum standards as at 31 March 2005. The data is also expressed as a percentage.
	The 2005 snapshot by PCTs shows that collectively they have judged many GP premises across London as being below minimum standards. This needs to be set in context in that judgements for some of those standards are subjective which by their very nature may lead to some PCTs reporting higher levels of premises that do not meet minimum standards than other PCTs with similar premises.
	In addition, failure is not about buildings being in a dangerous state of repair. Rather, that the premises may not have for example, adequate access to and within premises and WC facilities for disabled patients and staff.
	This is not because of a lack of intent by GPs practices and their PCTs to provide these facilities but because for example, the building is too small to incorporate them; with a general lack of suitable, alternative locations to develop. These are historic problems for London and other inner city PCTs that prevents investment in smaller business buildings including the development of modern GP and wider primary care premises.
	Nevertheless, the NHS plan set targets to substantially improve or replace up to 3,000 general practitioner premises and provide 500 one-stop primary care centres by 2004. These national targets were achieved with 462 premises improvements and 45 one-stop primary care centres produced or being developed across London. These resulted in improved patient-work environments/made additional services available to patients.
	For the longer term, across the London area all PCTs apart from Kensington and Chelsea PCT, and Westminster PCT are part of NHS LIFT. This, in its initial phase, has delivered to date 14 new buildings open to patients with another 18 under construction. These are not like-for-like replacements but modern super-surgeries that co-locate a range of primary, community and social care services with others normally provided in hospital settings.
	Examples include Newham PCT, who are through City and East London LIFT delivering a wider range of services to patients. The Centre, Manor Park houses three GP practices, health visitors, dentists, pharmacy, cardiology clinic, x-ray facilities, pathology services, optometry services and a healthy living cafe together in a single, one-stop centre.
	Another is Hounslow PCT, who are through Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow LIFT, developing the Thelma Golding Centre that will open to patients in early 2007. This will relocate three GP practices (11 GPs) alongside community and PCT services, such as smoking cessation, speech and language therapy, alongside London borough of Hounslow Social Services child and adult mental teams.
	As LIFT establishes a long-term partnership between the public and private sectors it will support the continued development of a health and social care estate that is fit for purpose to deliver 21st century services.
	
		PCT returns on 31 March 2005 of the number of general practitioner premises below minimum standards.
		
			 PCT name PCT code Number of premises below the minimum standards. Percentage of premises below the minimum standards. 
		
		
			 Barnet PCT 5A9 34 50 
			 Enfield PCT 5C1 48 79 
			 Haringey Teaching PCT 5C9 31 61 
			 Camden PCT 5K7 13 29 
			 Islington PCT 5K8 23 51 
			 Havering PCT 5A4 58 100 
			 Barking and Dagenham PCT 5C2 37 70 
			 City and Hackney PCT 5C3 10 19 
			 Tower Hamlets PCT 5C4 16 37 
			 Newham PCT 5C5 25 37 
			 Redbridge PCT SNA 0 0 
			 Waltham Forest PCT 5NC 36 62 
			 Hillingdon PCT SAT 7 13 
			 Hammersmith and Fulham PCT 5H1 12 34 
			 Baling PCT 5HX 22 26 
			 Hounslow PCT SHY 14 31 
			 Brent PCT 5K5 5 6 
			 Harrow PCT 5K6 1 2 
			 Kensington and Chelsea PCT 5LA 28 64 
			 Westminster PCT 5LC 9 15 
			 Bromley PCT 5A7 2 4 
			 Greenwich PCT 5A8 0 0 
			 Lambeth PCT 5LD 6 12 
			 Southwark PCT 5LE 5 10 
			 Lewisham PCT 5LF 48 94 
			 Bexley Care Trust 5TAK 0 0 
			 Kingston PCT 5A5 0 0 
			 Croydon PCT 5K9 0 0 
			 Wandsworth PCT 5LG 0 0 
			 Richmond and Twickenham PCT 5M6 27 77 
			 Sutton and Merton PCT 5M7 0 0

Hospital-acquired Infections

Laurence Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people have contracted infections in hospitals in Gloucestershire in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available; and if she will make a statement.

Caroline Flint: Available data indicate that healthcare associated infections (HCAIs) affect an estimated 9 per cent. of hospital patients each year.
	Information on all infections is not collected centrally. However, the mandatory surveillance system in operation for certain infections provides data by acute trusts and these results are available on the Department websites as follows:
	
		
			  Website 
		
		
			 Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteraemia www.dh.gov.uk/assetRoot/04/12/79/13/04127913.pdf 
			 Clostridium difficile associated diarrhoea www.dh.gov.uk/assetRoot/04/ll/83/61/04118361.pdf 
			 Glycopeptide resistant enterococci bacteraemia www.dh.gov.uk/assetRoot/04/ll/83/59/04118359.pdf 
			 Orthopaedic surgical site infections www.dh.gov.uk/assetRoot/04/12/22/59/04122259.pdf 
		
	
	Data is available on MRSA bloodstream infections from 2001, for Clostridium difficile associated diarrhoea and orthopaedic surgical site infections from 2004 and for Glycopeptide resistant enterococci bloodstream infections from 2003.

Immunisation

Steve Webb: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will publish the figures referred to on page 104 of Our health, our care, our say" reference five, on the number of general practices opted out of immunisation service provision, broken down by (a) primary care trust and (b) deprivation level.

Caroline Flint: The information is not available in the form requested.
	The analysis looked at the proportion of general medical services (CMS) partnerships in England opting out of childhood immunisation services as at 30 September 2004, by deprivation using the index of multiple deprivation (2004 at primary care trust (PCT) level) and in the spearhead group of PCTs.
	The vast majority of GMS partnerships (93.7 percent.) had not opted out. However, a clear gradient in the proportion of partnerships opting out was seen, with the proportion opting out increasing with increasing deprivation.
	The spearhead group had a higher than average proportion of partnerships opting-out, lying between the most and second most deprived fifth of PCTs.

NHS Trusts

Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Health which NHS trusts paid 95 per cent. of undisputed invoices within contract terms on (a) 60 days, (b) 90 days and (c) 120 days where no terms have been agreed in the last period for which figures are available; what the value of those invoices was in each case; which NHS trusts did not pay 95 per cent. of undisputed invoices within contract terms or 120 days where no terms have been agreed in that period; and what the value of those invoices was.

Jane Kennedy: National health service trusts are required to report on their performance against the better payment practice code (BPPC) in their individual final accounts. The BPPC target stipulates that all NHS trusts, primary care trusts and strategic health authorities must pay 95 per cent. of bills within contract terms or 30 days where no terms have been agreed.
	The data requested is not collected centrally by the Department.
	However, data on both the number of bills paid within the BPPC target and the value of those bills from the 2004–05 final accounts are available in the Library.

Nurses

Nick Hurd: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many full-time equivalent nursing vacancies there are in the North West London strategic health authority area.

Jane Kennedy: The table shows national health service three-month vacancies in the North West London strategic health Authority area by organisation for qualified nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff as at 31 March 2005 which are the latest figures available.
	
		Health and Social Care Information Centre Vacancies Survey March 2005 NHS three month vacancies in the North West London strategic health authority area by organisation for qualified nursing, midwifery, and health visiting staff. Three month vacancy rates, numbers and staff in post
		
			   Qualified nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff 
			   March 2005 September 2004 
			   Three month vacancy rate (percentage) Three month vacancy (number) (Staff in post) full-time equivalent Staff in post) Headcount 
		
		
			 North West London strategic health authority area total Q04 4.5 606 12,893 15,774 
			 Brent Teaching PCT 5K5 3.4 11 313 401 
			 Central and North West London Mental Health NHS Trust RV3 1.2 12 976 1,148 
			 Chelsea and Westminster Healthcare NHS Trust ROM 8.3 94 1,034 1,284 
			 Baling Hospital NHS Trust RC3 0.0 0 603 734 
			 Baling PCT 5HX 11.7 34 258 370 
			 Hammersmith and Fulham PCT 5H1 1.9 3 154 192 
			 Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust RON 10.7 234 1,962 2,210 
			 Harrow PCT 5K6 0.0 0 208 272 
			 Hillingdon Hospital NHS Trust RAS 0.0 0 771 1,152 
			 Hillingdon PCT SAT 0.0 0 373 476 
			 Hounslow PCT SHY 7.5 13 158 221 
			 Kensington and Chelsea PCT 5LA 13.2 39 258 347 
			 North West London Hospitals NHS Trust RV8 0.7 10 1,427 1,549 
			 North West London SHA Q04 (43)— 0 0 0 
			 Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust RT3 0.2 2 866 1,148 
			 St Mary's NHS Trust RJ5 0.3 4 1,265 1,567 
			 West London Mental Health NHS Trust RKL 5.4 73 1,276 1,438 
			 West Middlesex University NHS Trust RFW 3.8 27 699 857 
			 Westminster PCT 5LC 14.6 49 290 408 
		
	
	(43) Zero
	Notes:
	Three month vacancy
	1 Three month vacancy information is as at 31 March 2005
	2 Three month vacancies are vacancies which Trusts are actively trying to fill, which had lasted for three months or more (whole time equivalents)
	3 Three month vacancy rates are three month vacancies expressed as a percentage of three month vacancies plus staff in post
	4 Three month vacancy rates are calculated using staff in post from the Non-Medical Workforce Census September 2004
	5 Percentages are rounded to one decimal place
	Staff in post
	1 Staff in post data is from the Non-Medical Workforce Census September 2004
	General
	1 Vacancy and staff in post numbers are rounded to the nearest whole number
	2 Calculating the vacancy rates using the above data may not equal the actual vacancy rates
	3 Due to rounding, totals may not equal the sum of component parts
	4 Strategic health authority figures are based on Trusts, and do not necessarily reflect the geographical provision of healthcare
	Sources:
	Health and Social Care Information Centre Vacancies Survey March 2005
	Health and Social Care Information Centre Non-Medical Workforce Census September 2004

Child Protection

Annette Brooke: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what recent advice she has given to further education colleges on criminal record checks (a) on staff employed at the colleges and (b) in relation to work placements of their students.

Bill Rammell: 'Safeguarding Children in Education' was issued in September 2004. Two sets of supplementary guidance followed: 'Supplementary DfES Guidance for Work Experience Organisers' was issued in December 2004 and 'Safeguarding Children: Safer Recruitment and Selection in Education Settings' was issued in June 2005. The latter should be read alongside 'Child Protection: Preventing Unsuitable People from Working with Children and Young Persons in the Education Service', which was issued in May 2002. The target audience for this material was Corporations and Principals of Further Education Institutions, as well as Local Education Authorities, Governing Bodies and Headteachers of Schools, and Supply Agencies.
	The 'Child Protection' guidance states that:
	Teachers, other staff and volunteers whose job involves regularly caring for, training, supervising or being in sole charge of children under 18 should obtain an Enhanced Disclosure [from the Criminal Records Bureau]. This includes applicants for teacher training courses, and trainee teachers."
	'People who are selected for appointment to a position in which the normal duties involve regular contact with children under the age of 18 in a further education institution [who does not fall into the categories above] should obtain a Standard Disclosure. This is also the appropriate level of disclosure for a Governor.'
	'Students who are required to work with children as a necessary part of a training course, eg student teachers, nursery nurses, etc, will need to be checked when they are accepted onto the course.'
	'Agencies should obtain an Enhanced Disclosure in respect of all supply teachers they recruit ... and should obtain a fresh Enhanced Disclosure every 3 years, or earlier if the teacher has a break in service of 3 months or more, or if there are grounds for concern about the person's suitability to work with children.'
	The Supplementary Guidance for Work Experience Organisers gives guidance on the different circumstances in which it would be appropriate to carry out CRB checks of individuals, in organisations where students will be on long-term work experience placements. It makes clear that the responsibility for the CRB checks lies with the LEA, school or FE institution.

Children In Care

John Hemming: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many children have been taken into care in each year since 1976; how many forced adoptions have occurred in each year; how many children have been killed by their carers in each year; and what the budget for child protection was in each year.

Maria Eagle: Information on the number of children who started to be looked after by local authorities since 1976 can be obtained from the Department's website at: http://www.dfes.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/SFR/s000615/index.shtml.
	Statistics on 'forced adoptions' are not collected as adoptions are not forced Adoption order applications are made to a court, which decides whether it is in the interests of the child to make the adoption order. Adoption orders may be contested. Figures on contested adoption orders are collected by the Department for Constitutional Affairs.
	Available data are shown as follows:
	I refer the hon. Member to my answer of 28 November 2005, Official Report, column 168W, on children that have been killed by their carers.
	Decisions on how much is allocated to child protection budgets are made by local authorities. This information is not collected centrally. Data that are reported on children's social services expenditure are available from the Department of Health's website at:
	http://www.dh.gov.uk/PublicationsAndStatistics/Statistics/StatisticalWorkAreas/StatisticaIExpenditure/fs/en.
	
		Number of adoption orders, and percentage of contestedadoption orders EnglandNumber and percentage
		
			  Number of adoption orders Number of contested adoption orders Contested 
		
		
			 1994 6,326 1,676 26 
			 1995 5,317 1,224 23 
			 1996 4,936 876 18 
			 1997 4,266 866 20 
			 1998 4,675 944 20 
			 1999 3,962 984 25 
			 2000 4,438 980 22 
			 2001 4,452 876 20 
			 2002 4,120 922 22 
			 2003 4,713 1,170 25 
			 2004 4,539 850 19 
		
	
	Source :
	DCA Judicial Statistics & Private Law Sampler Forms

Educational Attainment

Nick Gibb: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what proportion of (a) children in receipt of free school meals, (b) pupils with special educational needs and (c) all children aged 11 years at the end of the 2004–05 academic year achieved (i) level 4 and (ii) level 5 at Key Stage 2 in (A) reading, (B) writing, (C) mathematics and (D) reading, writing and mathematics, broken down by type of school.

Jacqui Smith: The tables give the figures requested.
	
		Proportion of pupils eligible for free school meals, with special educational needs and all children aged 11 years at the end of the 2004–05 academic year achieving Level 4 and Level 5 at Key Stage 2 in reading, writing, mathematics and reading, writing and mathematics combined. Achievements at Key Stage 2 Level 4 and above and Level 5 in 2005 for all students
		
			  Reading Writing 
			  Eligible Percentage Level 4+ Percentage Level 5+ Eligible Percentage Level 4+ Percentage Level 5+ 
		
		
			 Maintained mainstream 581,513 85 42 581,539 63 15 
			 Special 5,482 5 1 5,481 1 0 
			 All maintained schools 587,015 84 42 587,040 63 15 
		
	
	
		
			  Maths Reading, writing & maths 
			  Eligible Percentage Level 4+ Percentage Level 5+ Eligible Percentage Level 4+ Percentage Level 5+ 
		
		
			 Maintained mainstream 583,021 76 30 581,265 57 9 
			 Special 6,110 3 0 5,481 1 0 
			 All maintained schools 589,151 75 30 586,766 56 9 
		
	
	
		Achievements at Key Stage 2 Level 4 and above and Level 5 in 2005 for students eligible for free school meals
		
			  Reading Writing 
			  Eligible Percentage Level 4+ Percentage Level 5+ Eligible Percentage Level 4+ Percentage Level 5+ 
		
		
			 Maintained mainstream 98,551 70 22 98,551 45 7 
			 Special 1,933 6 1 1,932 2 0 
			 All maintained schools 100,496 69 21 100,495 44 7 
		
	
	
		
			  Maths Reading, writing & maths 
			  Eligible Percentage Level 4+ Percentage Level 5+ Eligible Percentage Level 4+ Percentage Level 5+ 
		
		
			 Maintained mainstream 98,551 58 14 98,505 36 3 
			 Special 2,168 4 0 1,932 1 0 
			 All maintained schools 101,090 57 14 100,449 36 3 
		
	
	
		Achievements at Key Stage 2 Level 4 and above and Level 5 in 2005 for students with special educational needs
		
			  Reading Writing 
			  Eligible Percentage Level 4+ Percentage Level 5+ Eligible Percentage Level 4+ Percentage Level 5+ 
		
		
			 Maintained mainstream 127,549 52 10 127,571 22 1 
			 Special 5,433 5 1 5,432 1 0 
			 All maintained schools 133,002 51 9 133,023 21 1 
		
	
	
		
			  Maths Reading, writing & maths 
			  Eligible Percentage Level 4+ Percentage Level 5+ Eligible Percentage Level 4+ Percentage Level 5+ 
		
		
			 Maintained mainstream 128,282 39 6 127,477 14 1 
			 Special 6,056 3 0 5,432 1 0 
			 All maintained schools 134,358 37 6 132,929 14 1 
		
	
	Notes:
	1. Pupils eligible for Key Stage 2 assessment includes pupils with missing results.
	2. -" indicates non-zero less than 0.5%.
	3. Maintained mainstream schools include results from Community School (CY), Voluntary aided school (VA), Voluntary controlled school (VC), Foundation school (FD), City Technology College (CTC) and Academy (AC). Special schools include results from Community Special school (CYS) and Foundation special school (FDS).
	4. Only LA maintained schools whose results are published in the Achievement & Attainment Tables are included in this analysis.

Grades

Andrew Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what progress has been made towards ensuring that at least 50 per cent. of pupils achieve level 5 or above in English, mathematics and science by 2008.

Jacqui Smith: The Department has a number of initiatives to ensure that schools receive the resources, advice and support that they need to raise attainment further for secondary pupils. In the four years since its introduction the model of support and challenge provided through the Key Stage 3 strategy, now extended to the Secondary National Strategy, has been very effective. The Strategy has made great gains in improving the life chances of 14 year olds.
	
		Number and percentage of schools with less than 50 per cent. of pupils achieving Level 5 or above in English, mathematics and science
		
			  Number of schools below the floor target Percentage of schools below the floor target 
		
		
			 2005(52) n/a n/a 
			 2004 601 19 
			 2003(53) 592 19 
		
	
	(52) Data is not available for 2005. This data will be published in the revised Key Stage 3 Statistical First Release on 29th March 2006.
	(53) 2003 is the baseline against which the target is monitored.
	Figures on the number and percentage of schools where less than 50 per cent. of pupils achieved Level 5 or above in English, maths and science are only available for 2003 and 2004. 2005 figures will be published in the revised Key Stage 3 Statistical First Release on 29 March 2006 on the Departments research and statistics gateway at http://www.dfes.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/SFR/s000644/index.shtml. These figures will have been checked by schools and include any amendments requested as part of the Secondary (KS3) Achievement and Attainment Tables checking exercise.

Grades

Andrew Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what progress has been made towards ensuring that by 2008 the proportion of schools in which fewer than 65 per cent. of pupils achieve level 4 or above in mathematics and English is reduced by 40 per cent. against 2004 levels.

Jacqui Smith: Good progress has been made towards achieving this target. Compared with 2003 (baseline year), there has been an overall reduction of 34 per cent. (978 schools) in the number of schools achieving below 65 per cent. in English and 22 per cent. (770 schools) in the number of schools achieving below this level in mathematics.
	The Government's White Paper—Higher Standards, Better Schools for All—set out our commitment to an extra investment of £565 million by 2007/08 to support personalisation in primary and secondary schools, focusing particularly on helping children who have fallen behind in English and mathematics. A further £60 million will
	be available in each of the next two years to provide effective one-to-one and small group tuition for the lowest attaining pupils.
	
		Number and percentage of schools in which fewer than 65 per cent. of pupils achieve Level 4 or above in English or mathematics
		
			  English Mathematics 
			  Number of schools below the floor target Percentage of schools below the floor target Number of schools below the floor target Percentage of schools below the floor target 
		
		
			 2005 1,871 14 2,800 21 
			 2004 2,235 17 3,108 23 
			 (55)2003 2,849 21 3,570 26 
		
	
	(55) 2003 is the baseline against which the target is monitored.

Housing Expansion

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what estimate she has made of the number of additional (a) secondary and (b) primary schools that will be required in Peterborough to meet the planned expansion of housing.

Jacqui Smith: We rely on local authorities to estimate whether additional secondary or primary schools are required to meet planned expansions of housing. This is because local authorities are best placed to calculate the additional number of children of school age, to evaluate the effect of other demographic changes, and to compare the resulting totals with the actual and potential capacity of existing schools.
	Formulaic capital funding is notified in advance to local authorities, and is responsive to forecast changes in school population which will result from expansion of housing. Specifically, Modernisation funding is allocated on the basis of pupil numbers and the relative condition and suitability need of each authority's school buildings. In addition, New Pupil Places funding is allocated on the basis of the actual number of school pupils in each authority, and the forecast growth in pupil numbers. These funding streams are calculated using local authorities' own forecasts. Where an authority is facing exceptional circumstances because of the rate of growth of pupil numbers, then the Department periodically operates a safety-valve mechanism for additional funding. Guidance on these funding streams can be found on the website http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/docbank/index.cfm?id=9178.
	In addition to the formulaic capital funding described above, schools are allocated Devolved Formula Capital (DFC) to meet their individual priorities. This is based on a per school and a per pupil formula. Guidance on DFC can be found on the website
	http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/management/resourcesfinanceandbuilding/funding/capitalinvestment/typesoffunding/nds/
	Local authorities may also have the capacity to raise their own additional funding through Section 106 receipts. This is a scheme whereby housing developers provide funding to the local authority which can be used for extra school places.
	Capital allocations to Peterborough borough council and its schools, also Voluntary Aided Schools, for the next two years are set out in the table below. As well as formulaic funding, the local authority and Voluntary Aided schools received Targeted Capital Fund allocations for 2006–07 which will be paid out in the years 2006–07 to 2008–09:
	
		
			   £ million 
			  2006–07 2007–08 
		
		
			 Local authority schools   
			 Modernisation—secondary 1.0 1.0 
			 Modernisation—primary 1.0 1.0 
			 New pupil places 0.6 0.6 
			 Other 0.3 0.3 
			 Devolved Formula Capital 3.1 (57)3.3 
			 Targeted Capital Fund 6.7 — 
			
			 Voluntary Aided schools   
			 Programme 0.6 0.6 
			 Devolved Formula Capital 0.5 (57)0.5 
			 Targeted Capital Fund 13.0 — 
			 Total 26.8 7.3 
		
	
	(57) indicative

Pupil Performance

John Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what change there has been since 2003 in the performance of black and minority ethnic pupils in (a) English and (b) mathematics at each key stage.

Jacqui Smith: The requested information is as follows:
	
		Key Stage 1 Percentage of pupils1 achieving Level 2 or above at Key Stage 1
		
			  All pupils Minority ethnic(59) Black 
		
		
			 Reading
			 2003 84 81 78 
			 2004(60) 85 82 79 
			 2005(61) 85 82 79 
			 Writing
			 2003 81 78 74 
			 2004(61) 82 78 74 
			 2005(60) 82 78 75 
			 Mathematics
			 2003 90 87 84 
			 2004(60) 90 87 84 
			 2005(61) 91 88 85 
		
	
	(58) Includes the results of pupils in maintained schools (including academies and CTCs) only.
	(59) Includes Mixed, Asian, Black and Chinese pupils.
	(60) Task/test results for 2004 are for non-trial schools only
	(61) 2005 figures are based on Teacher Assessments results
	Notes:
	Please note that 2004 and 2005 results are not directly comparable to results for 2003. This is to reflect the fact that:
	1. in 2004 a trial took place in some Local Authorities (LAs), In which only teacher assessments were submitted to the Department The remaining (non-trial) LAs continued to submit both test/task results and teacher assessments.
	2. in 2005, for the first time, all schools were only required to report teacher assessments to the Department.
	
		Key Stage 2 Percentage of pupils(62) achieving Level 4 or above at Key Stage 2 tests
		
			  All pupils Minority ethnic(63) Black 
		
		
			 English
			 2003 75 71 68 
			 2004 77 74 70 
			 2005 79 74 70 
			 Mathematics
			 2003 72 67 60 
			 2004 73 69 63 
			 2005 75 69 62 
		
	
	(62) Includes the results of pupils in maintained schools (including academies and CTCs) only.
	(63) Includes Mixed, Asian, Black and Chinese pupils
	
		Key Stage 3 Percentage of pupils(64) achieving Level 5 or above at Key Stage 3 tests
		
			  All pupils Minority ethnic(65) Black 
		
		
			 English
			 2003 69 64 56 
			 2004 71 67 62 
			 2005(66) 74 71 66 
			 Mathematics
			 2003 71 64 54 
			 2004 73 67 58 
			 2005(66) 74 68 61 
		
	
	(64) Includes the results of pupils in maintained schools (including academies and CTCs) only.
	(65) Includes Mixed, Asian, Black and Chinese
	(66) Results for 2005 are based on provisional data prior to being checked by schools as part of the Secondary (KS3) Achievement and Attainment Tables.
	
		Key Stage 4 GCSE and equivalent(67) results of 15 year old pupils(68)(69)
		
			  All pupils Minority ethnic(70) Black 
			  Number of pupils % achieving 5+ A*C including E&M Number of pupils % achieving 5+ A*C including E&M Number of pupils Percentage achieving 5+ A*C including E&M 
		
		
			 2003 576,084 38.9 67,194 35.2 18,945 24.0 
			 2004 591,774 40.3 69,641 37.3 19,641 26.5 
			 2005 584,703 42.3 70,063 40.1 20,369 30.1 
		
	
	(67) 2003 figures include GCSE/GNVQ results, 2004 and 2005 include GCSEs and equivalent qualifications approved for use pre-16
	(68) Age at the start of the academic year
	(69) Includes the results of pupils in maintained schools (including academies and CTCs) only.
	(70) Includes Mixed, Asian, Black and Chinese pupils

Pupil Spending

Andrew Gwynne: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the average expenditure on education per pupil was in the (a) primary and (b) secondary sector in (i) Tameside and (ii) Stockport local education authority in each year since 1997.

Jacqui Smith: The information requested is contained within the following table.
	
		Average expenditure(71) on education per pupil in Stockport and Tameside local authorities since 1997–98 £
		
			  Primary school based expenditure per pupil(72)(73)(74) Pre-primary/primary school based expenditure per pupil(72)(73)(74) Secondary school based expenditure per pupil(72)(73) Combined local authority and school based expenditure per pupil(75) 
			  Stockport Tameside Stockport Tameside Stockport Tameside Stockport Tameside 
		
		
			 1997–98(76) n/a n/a 1,570 1,590 2,110 2,190 2,430 2,400 
			 1998–99(76) n/a n/a 1,750 1,720 2,330 2,290 2,650 2,540 
			 1999–2000(77) 1,860 1,640 1,890 1,650 2,460 2,300 2,580 2,600 
			 2000–01 2,180 1,970 2,230 2,010 2,820 2,500 2,830 2,850 
			 2001–02 2,370 2,420 2,410 2,500 3,040 2,930 3,040 3,200 
			 2002–03 2,260 2,480 n/a n/a 2,890 2,930 3,090 3,250 
			 2003–04 2,460 2,610 n/a n/a 3,130 3,260 3,430 3,630 
			 2004–05(78) 2,720 2,750 n/a n/a 3,370 3,480 3,720 3,760 
		
	
	n/a = not available.
	(71) The expenditure data to 1998–99 are drawn from the annual 'RO1' spending returns which local authorities submitted to the Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions. Figures for 1999–2000 to 2001–02 are drawn from Section 52 (Table 3) Outturn statements which local authorities submitted to the DfES. Figures for 2002–03 onwards are taken from Section 52 (Table A) Outturn statements. The change in sources is shown by the dotted lines.
	(72) School based expenditure includes only expenditure incurred directly by local authority schools. This includes the pay of teachers and school-based support staff, school premises costs, books and equipment, and certain other supplies and services, less any capital items funded from recurrent spending and income from sales, fees and charges and rents and rates. This excludes the central cost of support services such as home to school transport, local authority administration and the financing of capital expenditure. The pupil data are drawn from the DfES Annual Schools Census adjusted to be on a financial year basis.
	(73) From 2002–03 the school based expenditure calculation is broadly similar to the calculation in previous years. However, 2001–02 and earlier years includes all premature retirement compensation (PRC) and Crombie payments, mandatory PRO payments and other indirect employee expenses, while from 2002–03 only the schools element of these categories is included. In 2001–02 this accounted for approximately £70 per pupil of the England total, while the schools element of these categories accounted for approximately £50 per pupil of the England total in 2002–03. Also, for some LAs, expenditure that had previously been attributed to the school sectors was reported within the LA part of the form from 2002–03 and would therefore be excluded, though this is not quantifiable from existing sources.
	(74) Expenditure was not distinguished between the pre-primary and primary sectors until the inception of Section 52 for financial year 1999–2000.
	(75) Combined local authority and school based expenditure includes all expenditure on the education of children in local authority maintained establishments and pupils educated by the authority other than in maintained establishments. This includes both school based expenditure and all elements of central LA expenditure except youth and community and capital expenditure from revenue (CERA). Certain elements of central local authority expenditure cannot be attributed to a particular phase of education and consequently a sector breakdown is not available. Pupil figures include all pre-primary pupils, including those under 5s funded by the authority and being educated in private settings (only available from 1999–2000), pupils educated in maintained mainstream schools and any other local authority maintained pupils. All pupil numbers are adjusted to be on a financial year basis.
	(76) Spending in 1997–98 reflects the transfer of monies from local government to central government for the nursery vouchers scheme. These were returned to local government from 1998–99.
	(77) The expenditure data for 1999–2000 onwards reflect the return of grant maintained schools to local authority maintenance.
	(78) 2004–05 data is provisional and is subject to change by the local authority.
	Note:
	Figures are as reported by the LEA in cash terms rounded to the nearest £10 and may not sum due to rounding.

School Finance

Dan Norris: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills 
	(1)  how much was allocated by her Department in Bath and North East Somerset for (a) capital projects and (b) revenue funding in each of the last five years;
	(2)  how much was allocated by her Department in South Gloucestershire for (a) capital projects and (b) revenue funding in each of the last five years;
	(3)  what the total expenditure was on maintenance and improvement of (a) primary, infant and junior schools and (b) secondary schools in Wansdyke constituency in each of the last eight years.

Jacqui Smith: Capital and revenue allocations made to Bath and North East Somerset local authority and its schools, and to South Gloucestershire local authority and its schools, in each of the last five years are set out in the following table:
	
		
			 £ million 
			  Capital allocations Revenue funding 
			  Bath and North East Somerset(80) South Gloucestershire(81) Bath and North East Somerset South Gloucestershire 
		
		
			 2001–02 5.4 11 77.2 117.5 
			 2002–03 12.5 15.9 81.8 126.8 
			 2003–04 11.8 14.9 90.2 141.6 
			 2004–05 7.3 19.1 96.2 149.9 
			 2005–06 5.6 11 103.5 160 
		
	
	(80) Note: 2002–03 and 2003–04 included Targeted Capital Funding of £4.4 million and £4.9 million respectively.
	(81) Note: 2002–03 and 2004–05 included Targeted Capital Funding of £4.0 million and £2.5 million respectively.
	We expect local authorities and schools to take decisions on allocating capital funds for building maintenance and improvements in accordance with their local asset management plan. Accordingly, records of these categories of expenditure are not held centrally. However revenue figures are reported separately, and are shown below.
	
		Revenue expenditure on the maintenance and improvement of school buildings and grounds since 1997–98Cash terms figures as reported by local authorities as at 23 February 2006 £
		
			  Bath and NE Somerset LA South Gloucestershire LA 
			  Primary schools Pre-primary and primary schools Secondary schools Primary schools Pre-primary and primary schools Secondary schools 
		
		
			 1997–98 — 1,056 1,132 — 1,196 1,518 
			 1998–99 — 1,474 1,204 — 1,139 1,686 
			 1999–2000 737 737 1,208 1,081 1,081 1,367 
			 2000–01 833 833 1,118 866 867 943 
			 2001–02 820 820 2,004 1,448 1,449 750 
			 2002–03 688 — 1,205 666 — 1,214 
			 2003–04 654 — 1,147 582 — 1,087 
			 2004–05 758 — 1,160 661 — 1,184 
		
	
	Note:
	All figures are £1,000's.

Teenage Conception

Brian Jenkins: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many teenage pregnancies there were in Tamworth constituency in the latest period for which figures are available; and if she will make a statement.

Beverley Hughes: The latest data on under-18 conception rates (2004 provisional data)-which were published by the Office for National Statistics on 23 February 2006-are only available at top-tier local authority, not district level. This data shows that steady progress is being made on reducing the under-18 conception rate. Since the 1998 baseline year, the under-18 conception rate in England has fallen by 11.1 per cent. and the under-16 rate has fallen by 15.2 per cent. Both rates are now at their lowest levels since the mid-1980s.
	2004 data for Staffordshire shows that performance is exceeding the progress made in England as a whole. The under-18 conception rate in Staffordshire has fallen by 20 per cent.-from a rate of 43.2 per 1,000 females aged 15–17 (635 conceptions) in 1998, to a rate of 34.6 per 1,000 (550 conceptions) in 2004.
	District-level data for 2003 shows a rate reduction in Tamworth of 21.8 per cent. between 1998 and 2003. There were 82 under-18 conceptions in 1998 (a rate of 55.7 per 1,000), falling to 71 conceptions in 2003 (a rate of 43.6 per 1,000). 2004 district-level data will be published later this year.